MindfulMaverickAre votes actually ruining niche communities?
https://piefed.zip/c/asklemmy/p/1165527/are-votes-actually-ruining-niche-communities
A🔻atar of 🔻engeanceWWIII is happening and you’re worried about optimizing your gooning
𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠WWIII is happening and you’re worried about someone worried about optimising their gooning.
They almost had me in the first half with the discussion-of-discussion, which is relevant to everything if you lie to yourself. And god knows we do
How about post-Epstein files people stop letting anyone speak like this about the epimping segment of a website that gained notoriety for having a community centered around stalking and grooming underaged girls
leagman1Isn’t the situation in gonewild a clear sign it’d be wise to set up two separate communities? gonewildgals and gonewildguys or something? If a community is “too broad”, niche content will always lose out. The answer is usually setting up a new community specific to that niche.
Fighting low-effort posts and memes either means setting up a meme community, more moderation on the posts or both.
People could discuss pretty much anything in old school forums which only a handful of boards. Now we need millions of communities just because Reddit has them as well, even if there is not enough activity to support them.
I don’t think any form of rework on voting system would work; everyone has their own criteria, and it won’t always make sense to everyone. Preventing upvotes/downvotes would just be a hindrance, and it also opens up a way to manipulate votes to however mods want.
One solution would be to have a community dedicated to discussions so that they have a chance to appear at the top.
More communities in a platform saturated with abandoned communities seems like the worse possible idea.
True, but I think that’s the best you can get. Lemmy itself isn’t very thriving compared to Reddit in the first place. It would have been a lot better if multiple communities could share a post cross-instance, but we don’t have that.
Come to think of it, does Lemmy support flares? I think having a flare for niche stuff would help a lot in terms of discoverability without splitting the community.
I like that on hexbear and some other communities here you have just an upvote and no downvote. It makes posters who disagree have to either just move on or actually make a decent argument instead of just pressing the “I don’t like this” button.
Lemmynsfw solved this by disabling downvotes. I don’t think memes were a problem there.
An alternative is strong moderation to keep off-topic comments and posts out.
ordnance_qf_17_pounderI just block meme-posters and meme communities and my Fediverse stays interesting as a result. No need to convince/wait for the world to change when I can conveniently block the slop myself.
lime!
LemmySlopSkimmer [none/use name]probably the piefed social credit score killing those communities tbh